Traveller

I ended up getting the latest edition of the Traveller Core Book and would like to give it a spin sometime here in the near future. Any Traveller fans out there?

Damn you, Szemely! Traveller is on THE LIST. Unfortunately, I've only made one character (and survived!), and then we did some brief RP, i.e., one session.

:-)

I've never played it before, so it would be my first go.

Do you have a link to a basic rundown of what the system is all about?

I would love some Traveller. I've only ever messed about with the Mongoose rule set. Started creating an Excel character creator. Got far enough to build a world generator and the stat roller/assigner. I'm in a Judge Dredd game built on the basic Traveller rule set.

Found a Traveller wiki, but nothing like a quick start rule set or anything.

Traveller Wiki

Is it Mongoose Traveller szem? As Drama says, we're running Dredd in the system and I'd be up to join as a player in a traditional SF one.

Yep, Mongoose. The edition that was just recently released.

Hrm. I've got a Traveller book here..

but it's (c) 2008. Time to poke around and see what the differences are. Count me among the interested.

Huh. Amazon says I ordered the other one too..

Time to go hunt the closet of RPGs..

Oh! There it is. Right next to the old one. :)

I got Traveller for christmas. Would love to try it out. I've played the last Mongoose edition so I'm familiar with the rules. Haven't had time to digest what's new and shiny.

OK mine is the older 2008 edition but if there's not a huge difference, I'm in!

Here's the biggest differences I've been able to suss out after a short time with it today:
It looks prettier.
You can join academies (University/Military Academy) at character creation instead of going straight into service.
There's a bane/boon mechanic in that you roll an extra die and takes the lowest or highest two.
Armor seems to be cheaper, no longer priced in the millions. Seems to work differently as well since the bonuses seems to be slightly higher.
Computers seems to be updated.
And that's about as far as I've had the chance to look.

I'll do some reading the next few days and see what I can do about running a game. I'll be learning as I go, but that's the beauty of forum play, ain't it. :-)

Thanks for your interest, everyone!

Haven't forgot about this but with work firing back up at full strength after the holidays I'm going to need some more time to read/plan before starting something up. I'll let everyone know when I'm ready.

Take your time. I'm willing to wait for a Traveller game :)

I got hold a review copy from Mongoose so with you all the way!

is it too late to jump on this?

It'll be a while before I get something running, so it's not too late!